He thinks everyone is as stupid as he is

President Trump spoke by phone with a dozen Democratic senators, in a bid to win their support for his tax-cut plan.

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Trump argued that his plan actually is a big tax hike on rich people in general, and himself in particular. (“My accountant called me and said ‘You’re going to get killed in this bill,’” the president said, according to NBC.)

  NY Magazine

that must be the accountant he calls John - as in his pretend publicist John.

“The deal is so bad for rich people, I had to throw in the estate tax just to give them something,” Trump said, per “multiple people in the room who heard the president on the phone,” reports the Washington Post.

This is a bizarre case to make, for several reasons. First, it is verifiably false. [...] Second, Trump is inviting questions about his own tax returns, which he refuses to disclose in violation of a previously well-established decades-long norm.

To be fair, The Most Notable Loser wouldn't see that second point as a problem. He's deflected that question many times. He can do it again.

And third, there is the curious moral logic. Trump is arguing that a plan that forces rich people to pay more would be unfair and require giving them an offsetting break, just to be nice.

How on earth would he even recognize a moral problem?

Even if Senate Democrats could be duped into believing Trump’s false claims about the distributional effects of the plan, why does he think they would warm up to his reasoning?

Because they're rich, too? Because they stand to gain the same tax breaks?

No, the truth is simpler than that, because The Most Notable Loser is a simpleton. He simply thinks everyone believes whatever he believes. Believe me.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.